November 2013

A contact print from a pair of 4×5 negatives of a burlesque dancer shot in Loyd Sandgren’s studio. No information was attached to this print but another more clothed photograph of the same woman is in the collection with a note identifying her as a stripper. This print was found in an album of Loyd’s [...]

“Here is a section of town that is gone. Davis and Bay Streets. This is torn down now. In fact the overhead (Skyway) is built here, on the way to the Prime Osborn Building. 1951.” LS This intersection of South Davis Street and West Bay Street was in the heart of the La Villa neighborhood’s [...]

The Jacksonville Yacht Storage business, first registered in February of 1932 was located at 17 Riverside Avenue, just to the West of McCoy’s Creek where it feeds into the St. Johns River on land that is now part of the Florida Times-Union property. To the east of this intersection (the left of this image) Riverside [...]